First Sprint Demo and Retrospective
On Friday, 29 April 2022, we will have the first Sprint Demo and Retrospective. The Sprint Demo will be from 8:20 to 11:00 (with two breaks).
At 11:00, it is recommended that all teams take a short break. Teams Elks, Falcons, Herons, and Swans can schedule their Sprint Retrospectives for some time after 11:00. The recommended length for a Sprint Retrospective in this course is 55 minutes.
Teams Bears, Owls, Lynxes, and Whales have scheduled retrospectives guided by a teacher. See the schedule below.
What each team's demo should be like
In each team, all members should be prepared to do the presentation and demo. When time comes for the team to start, one person will be selected by the teacher to actually give the presentation and demo. The selection will be made randomly, with dice or some similar method.
See also: the chapter "How we do sprint demos" in the course book (pages 79-82). In the Sprint Demo, a recommended 12-minute template for each team is as follows.
- Introduction to the product: what the team is creating. Length: 1 minute, with 1 presentation slide. May be longer if necessary.
- Sprint summary: what was the sprint goal, did we achieve it, and if we didn't: why not? Length: 2 minutes, with 1 presentation slide. May be shorter if necessary. Why things went wrong (if they did) can be very helpful to other teams.
- Live demo of the product prototype. Show each user-story that the team has finished, or summarize if the team finished many small stories. Length: 5 minutes, optionally with 1 presentation slide listing user-stories (with the unfinished ones marked clearly). The demo is important - make time for the demo.
- Questions and suggestions from the audience Length: 4 minutes. Questions and suggestions are important - make time for them.
In some cases, one or two team-members may be unable to perform the demo. As an example, this could happen if the demo requires software that some team-member cannot install (such as, Windows software which doesn't run on MacOS). Then it is OK that some other team-member screen-shares the product, while the selected person talks about what we see.
Hardware products can be shown by means of the document-camera in Sal A.
Video clips are allowed but not encouraged - a live demo is preferable.
What each team's Sprint Retrospective should be like
See the chapter "How we do sprint retrospectives" in the course book (pages 83-94). What follows is a brief summary.
This meeting is about methods and ways of working. Technical discussions should be deferred to another meeting.
First thing: select a secretary. The Scrum Master and the Product Owner have special roles already. Therefore, one of the others should be secretary for the retrospective.
The Scrum Master summarizes the sprint in 1 minute. State the sprint goal, did we achieve it, was there any important events or decisions?
Do "the rounds". Each person gets to say, without being interrupted, what was good, what the team might try next sprint, and what could have been better. Any discussion is deferred until after "the rounds".
After "the rounds", it is usually clear what the most important thing is, and the team can start discussing that. The focus should be, how can we make the next sprint better?
Near the end, the Scrum Master with help from the secretary summarizes the discussions. The end result should be three groups of bullet points:
- Which methods were good - make sure we continue to do them.
- Which new methods should we try next sprint (up to three items, trying too many new things at once doesn't work).
- Which methods didn't work for us (so we can stay away from them).
The first two groups of bullet points are positive, and contain good things that the team should do. The last group is negative, with things that should be done differently.
Schedule for the first Sprint Demo
The demo will be in three parts, as follows. Part I is 8:20-9:00; part II is 9:15-10:00, part III is 10:15-11:00; see below for details. Attendance at the demo is obligatory for all teams.
- 8:20 - Start of Sprint Demo, introduction by teacher.
- 8:30 - Team Lynxes starts. Please present in English.
- 8:42 - Team Lynxes finishes.
- 8:45 - Team Falcons starts. Please present in English.
- 8:57 - Team Falcons finishes.
- 9:00 - Break.
- 9:15 - Team Owls starts. Please present in English.
- 9:27 - Team Owls finishes.
- 9:30 - Team Herons starts. Please present in English.
- 9:42 - Team Herons finishes.
- 9:45 - Team Swans starts. Please present in English.
- 9:57 - Team Swans finishes.
- 10:00 - Break.
- 10:15 - Team Bears starts. Please present in English.
- 10:27 - Team Bears finishes.
- 10:30 - Team Elks starts. Please present in English.
- 10:42 - Team Elks finishes.
- 10:45 - Team Whales starts. Please present in English.
- 10:57 - Team Whales finishes.
- 11:00 - End of Sprint Demo.
Schedule for first Sprint Retrospectives with teacher guidance
- 11:05 - Team Owls, guided retrospective with F Lundevall, Electrum, lift A, floor 4.
- 13:05 - Team Bears, guided retrospective with F Lundevall, Electrum, lift A, floor 4.
- 14:05 - Team Lynxes, guided retrospective with F Lundevall, Electrum, lift A, floor 4.
- 15:05 - Team Whales, guided retrospective with F Lundevall, Electrum, lift A, floor 4.